P. D. OUSPENSKY

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I RETURNED to Russia in November, 1914, that is, at the beginning of the first world war, after a rather long journey through Egypt, Ceylon, and India. The war had found me in Colombo and from there I went back through England. When leaving Petersburg at the start of my journey I had said that I was going to ""seek the miraculous."" The ""miracu...

MR. O. Recurrence is in eternity. It is not the same life. This life ends and time ends. There is a theory-and this system admits this theory-that time can be prolonged. I have no evidence. If you think about time, how many attempts were made by spiritualists and Others-but there is no evidence. The study of recurrence must begin with the study ...

The idea of esotericism is chiefly the idea of higher mind. To see clearly what this means we must first of all realise that our ordinary mind (including the mind of a genius) is not the highest possible order of human mind. The human mind can rise to a level almost inconceivable for us, and we can see the results of the work of higher mind, tho...

When Mr. O. came in, after answering a few questions, he said that if we had any questions on what he had said last time, we must ask them then, as he would not come back to the subject again; we would have Other things to talk about later. During the meeting he would go over what he had said. After a certain number more questions, he said that ...

From 1907 untill 1913 Ouspensky wrote fairly regularly for a Russian newspaper, mostly on foreign affairs. At the same t i m e he was working on various books based on the idea that our consciousness is an incomplete state not far removed from sleep, and also that our three-dimensional view of the universe is inadequate and incomplete. Hoping th...

"I will tell you a fairy tale,"" said the Devil, ""on one condition: you must not ask me the moral. You may draw any conclusion you like, but please do not question me. As it is, far too many follies are laid at our door, yet we, strictly speaking, do not even exist. It is you who create us."" My story takes place in New York some twenty-five ye...

WHEN P. D. Ouspensky was asked if he intended to publish his lectures, he answered: What is the use? The most important is not the lectures but the questions and answers. This book consists of verbatim extracts from talks and answers to questions given by Ouspensky between 1921 and 1946. Chapter I is a general survey of the fundamental ideas, wh...

SOME YEARS ago I began to receive letters from readers of my books. All these letters contained one question, what I had been doing after I had written my books, which were published in English in 1920 and 1931, and had been written in 1910 and 1912. I could never answer these letters. It would have needed books, even to attempt to do this. But ...